OBJECTIVES Studies examining healthcare workers' exposure to antineoplastic drugs have focused on the drug preparation or drug administration areas. However, such an approach has probably underestimated the overall exposure risk as the drugs need to be delivered to the facility, transported internally and then disposed. The objective of this study is to determine whether drug contamination occu...

diet can play a vital role in cancer prevention. nowadays the scientists are looking for food materials which can potentially prevent the cancer occurrence. the purpose of this research is to examine anti-mutagenic and apoptotic effects of apigenin in human lymphoma cells. in present study human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (eheb cell line) were cultured in rpmi 1640 (sigma), supplemented with ...

Immunotherapy could be combined with conventional chemotherapeutic modalities aimed at reducing tumor burden. Such combination therapy may be most useful when "metronomic" doses of antineoplastic drugs are used, thereby potentially avoiding some of the immunosuppressive effects of these drugs. Recent studies have shown that some conventional antineoplastic drugs can be exploited for antiangioge...